This is a really good observation.temporal1 wrote:i have met, worked with, personally known, interacted with many highly education, multi-degreed folks in my lifetime. lawyers, scientists, engineers, physicists, etc. (a consequence of living near a large state university, i suppose.) in more recent years, due to personal and family needs and illnesses, i've interacted with medical and psychiatric doctors, many with multiple degrees. many very fine minds.
the one common thread i notice, the more education, combined with real life experience, the more likely these "experts" will rush to clarify - they are NOT experts! - i.e., the more they learn, the more humble they become, the more they realize they do not know, the more anxious they are to clarify,
they do NOT "know it all."
I notice that Wade's signature is now "knowledge puffeth up". To me, that refers to the kind of knowledge that says I know more than you and I am better than you. To a Christian, that's not what knowledge is for.
But the New Testament also talks about knowledge in a positive way. What kinds of knowledge and approaches to knowledge help us in our daily walk as Christians? What kinds of knowledge and approaches to knowledge just puff us up?
And how does this relate to what scientists and philosophers call "epistemological humility", being humble about what we claim to know and realizing how much we do not know?